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Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
Record details
- ISBN: 0062662376
- ISBN: 9780062662378
- ISBN: 0062662384
- ISBN: 9780062662385
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Physical Description:
231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: Young readers' edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Setting the Scene -- A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- A New Beginning -- The Double V -- The "Colored" Computers -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Breaking Barriers -- No Limits -- The Area Rule -- An Exceptional Mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Writing the Textbook on Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- One Small Step. |